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"Say nothing and it may not be true" : focalization and voice in wide sargasso sea
Full text linkDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoJean Rhys publicou em 1966 o romance Wide Sargasso Sea, a história de Bertha, a primeira esposa de Mr. Rochester do clássico Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë (1847). Esta dissertação propõe-se desta forma a uma investigação dos "silêncios" no romance principalmente daqueles ligados a Bertha como personagem e narrador. A análise é baseada na teoria sobre focalização e voz narrativa de Gerard Genette
The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys' Quartet
Full text linkAbstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic aesthetic. But what do we mean when we classify or “diagnose” authors of literature or fictional characters as in the case of Rhys’ and _Quartet’s_ protagonist? Against this mode of reading, I argue that Rhys’ novel asks us, in various ways, to understand it on its own terms, suggesting a mode that I call _immanent reading_. It enjoins the reader to understand rather than to classify the famously problematic Rhys “heroine.” Ultimately, _Quartet_ foregrounds the instability of moral and social positions, implicitly arguing against what it calls the “mania for classification” employed by the novel’s antagonists. _Quartet_ cautions against diagnostic interpretations by dramatizing scenes of hypothetical focalization, emphasizing the modal nature of reality, and providing the novel with its characteristically shadowy mood. _Mood_ is a term drawn from Gérard Genette, which describes how certain narrative choices and devices (or _mode_) compose a discursive narrative atmosphere (or _mood_). is project suggests the untapped potential of narratology for analyzing affect in fictional narrative
The life and letters of T. Rhys Evans ... with selections from his sermons and addresses,
No full textTranslation into English of the Alcestis of Euripides, by T. Rhys Evans: p. [339]-376.Mode of access: Internet
House calls: The case of the entertaining case
No full textIntrigued by a common assumption that neurological cases are over-represented in published case reports, Rhys Thomas and Naomi Thomas investigate whether this is true and explore possible reasons for i
The Geography of Jean Rhys: The Impact of National Identity upon the Exiled Female Author
No full textCritical considerations of Jean Rhys’ texts are often intent on geopolitically ‘placing’ the female author. Feeling exiled from her birth country of Dominica and her resident country of England, Rhys felt as if she ‘had no country really now’ (Rhys 1984, 172). National identity seems to have impact upon both public and private practices of Rhys’ authorship. A lack of national identity implies that Rhys is placeless; a concept which is further problematised when considered under Virginia Woolf’s arguments in A Room of One’s Own (1929). If Rhys does not have country, how can she have a private space from which to write? For an exiled female author, private space is an issue pertinent to studies of her authorship. Through the frameworks of A Room of One’s Own and Hélène Cixous’ concept of ‘country in language’, this article demonstrates that Jean Rhys may use her writing practice as an imagined place in which to search for home. For the exiled female author, the textualisation of place and her identity as ‘author’ is an alternative dwelling space
Corruption and Hierarchy: A Replication of Studies 1c and 6 of Fath & Kay 2018
No full textThis project is a group dissertation project, supervised by Dr Thomas Rhys Evans, exploring the link between organisational hierarchy and perceptions of corruption. The project is a close replication of studies 1c and 6 by Fath and Kay (2018)
Jean Rhys
No full textJean Rhys (1890-1979) is the author of five novels and over seventy short stories. The essays collected in Jean Rhys: Twenty-First-Century Approaches demonstrate Rhys’s centrality to modernism and to postcolonial literature alike by addressing her stories and novels from the 1920s and 1930s, including Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, and Good Morning, Midnight, as well as her later bestseller, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The volume establishes Rhys as a major author with relevance to a number of different critical discourses, and includes a section on affect theory that shows how contemporary interest in Rhys correlates with the recent “affective turn” in the social sciences and humanities. Strangely haunting and deeply unsettling, Rhys’s portraits of dispossessed women living in the early and late twentieth-century continue to trouble critical categories and easy conceptualisations of the periods her work spans.</p
Three essays in health economics
No full textThis thesis presents three essays on policy-related topics in Health Economics. The specific policy topics this thesis explores are health insurance and inequality, spillovers or peer effects of health behaviours, and the impact of human resources in healthcare. The first essay in this thesis, I analyse the redistributive effects of a publicly financed healthcare expansion. Using data from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (OHIE) we analyse the redistributive impacts of a publicly financed health insurance expansion. We use a residual inclusion methodology combined with quantile regression to estimate the heterogeneity in the effects of health insurance across the income distribution. We find that there are indeed redistributive impacts, even in the small income window we have access to, which would otherwise be concealed in a linear regression. Those at the lower end of the income distribution tend to have a substantial increase in their disposable income as a result of health insurance coverage, while those at the upper end see no change in income. We additionally estimate that increased employment in at risk households is driving this effect. In next essay I analyse the spillover effects of a diabetes diagnosis. Diabetes is a unique condition, in that a positive change in lifestyle and behaviour, is both the first line treatment and the recommended method of preventing the disease. It is theoretically possible that by jointly partaking in diabetes treatment, partners of people with diabetes would substantially benefit from their partners’ diabetes diagnosis. Using blood data from the Health Survey for England, and a fuzzy regression kink design, we causally estimate the effect of a diabetes diagnosis on health-related behaviours of the individual with diabetes, as well as, their partners. We find that a diagnosis of diabetes results in a significant increase in the probability of exercising and a decrease in the probability of currently being a smoker both for the diabetic individual and their partner. However, we find limited evidence of other lifestyle changes. From a public health perspective, our results are especially important for the evaluation of diabetes related policies, while positive spillovers, particularly within households, should be taken into account in the evaluation process. In the final essay of this thesis, I analyse the impact of primary care physicians on health outcomes. Worldwide there is a growing concern that there are insufficient primary care physicians to meet demand. There is, however, mixed evidence on how effective primary care is in influencing population health outcomes. I estimate the effect of an increasing in primary care physicians using the Programa Mais M´edicos. Although previous studies have used the Programa Mais M´edicos to analyse the impact of a primary care physician supply, I exploit the variation in physicians allocated to each municipality and use only treated municipalities to identify the impact of primary care physicians on hospitalisations and mortality. I estimate the impact of primary care physicians using a generalised synthetic control estimator and find limited evidence of primary care physicians impacting health outcomes. These results question the notion that primary care physicians are a cost-effective means of improving population health
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